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<title>eventfd: prevent underflow for eventfd semaphores</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T08:47:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wen Yang</name>
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<published>2023-07-09T06:54:51Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 758b492047816a3158d027e9fca660bc5bcf20bf ]

For eventfd with flag EFD_SEMAPHORE, when its ctx-&gt;count is 0, calling
eventfd_ctx_do_read will cause ctx-&gt;count to overflow to ULLONG_MAX.

An underflow can happen with EFD_SEMAPHORE eventfds in at least the
following three subsystems:

(1) virt/kvm/eventfd.c
(2) drivers/vfio/virqfd.c
(3) drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c

where (2) and (3) are just modeled after (1). An eventfd must be
specified for use with the KVM_IRQFD ioctl(). This can also be an
EFD_SEMAPHORE eventfd. When the eventfd count is zero or has been
decremented to zero an underflow can be triggered when the irqfd is shut
down by raising the KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN flag in the KVM_IRQFD
ioctl():

        // ctx-&gt;count == 0
        kvm_vm_ioctl()
        -&gt; kvm_irqfd()
           -&gt; kvm_irqfd_deassign()
              -&gt; irqfd_deactivate()
                 -&gt; irqfd_shutdown()
                    -&gt; eventfd_ctx_remove_wait_queue(&amp;cnt)
                       -&gt; eventfd_ctx_do_read(&amp;cnt)

Userspace polling on the eventfd wouldn't notice the underflow because 1
is always returned as the value from eventfd_read() while ctx-&gt;count
would've underflowed. It's not a huge deal because this should only be
happening when the irqfd is shutdown but we should still fix it and
avoid the spurious wakeup.

Fixes: cb289d6244a3 ("eventfd - allow atomic read and waitqueue remove")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wenyang.linux@foxmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dylan Yudaken &lt;dylany@fb.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Message-Id: &lt;tencent_7588DFD1F365950A757310D764517A14B306@qq.com&gt;
[brauner: rewrite commit message and add explanation how this underflow can happen]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>eventfd: Export eventfd_ctx_do_read()</title>
<updated>2023-09-23T08:47:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
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<published>2020-10-27T13:55:21Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 28f1326710555bbe666f64452d08f2d7dd657cae ]

Where events are consumed in the kernel, for example by KVM's
irqfd_wakeup() and VFIO's virqfd_wakeup(), they currently lack a
mechanism to drain the eventfd's counter.

Since the wait queue is already locked while the wakeup functions are
invoked, all they really need to do is call eventfd_ctx_do_read().

Add a check for the lock, and export it for them.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20201027135523.646811-2-dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 758b49204781 ("eventfd: prevent underflow for eventfd semaphores")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>eventfd: track eventfd_signal() recursion depth</title>
<updated>2020-02-11T12:34:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
</author>
<published>2020-02-02T15:23:03Z</published>
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commit b5e683d5cab8cd433b06ae178621f083cabd4f63 upstream.

eventfd use cases from aio and io_uring can deadlock due to circular
or resursive calling, when eventfd_signal() tries to grab the waitqueue
lock. On top of that, it's also possible to construct notification
chains that are deep enough that we could blow the stack.

Add a percpu counter that tracks the percpu recursion depth, warn if we
exceed it. The counter is also exposed so that users of eventfd_signal()
can do the right thing if it's non-zero in the context where it is
called.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Revert changes to convert to -&gt;poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL</title>
<updated>2018-06-28T17:40:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2018-06-28T16:43:44Z</published>
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The poll() changes were not well thought out, and completely
unexplained.  They also caused a huge performance regression, because
"-&gt;poll()" was no longer a trivial file operation that just called down
to the underlying file operations, but instead did at least two indirect
calls.

Indirect calls are sadly slow now with the Spectre mitigation, but the
performance problem could at least be largely mitigated by changing the
"-&gt;get_poll_head()" operation to just have a per-file-descriptor pointer
to the poll head instead.  That gets rid of one of the new indirections.

But that doesn't fix the new complexity that is completely unwarranted
for the regular case.  The (undocumented) reason for the poll() changes
was some alleged AIO poll race fixing, but we don't make the common case
slower and more complex for some uncommon special case, so this all
really needs way more explanations and most likely a fundamental
redesign.

[ This revert is a revert of about 30 different commits, not reverted
  individually because that would just be unnecessarily messy  - Linus ]

Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>eventfd: only return events requested in poll_mask()</title>
<updated>2018-06-15T00:07:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Avi Kivity</name>
</author>
<published>2018-06-08T19:12:32Z</published>
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The -&gt;poll_mask() operation has a mask of events that the caller
is interested in, but we're returning all events regardless.

Change to return only the events the caller is interested in. This
fixes aio IO_CMD_POLL returning immediately when called with POLLIN
on an eventfd, since an eventfd is almost always ready for a write.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@scylladb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>eventfd: switch to -&gt;poll_mask</title>
<updated>2018-05-26T07:16:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
</author>
<published>2017-12-31T15:42:48Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: add do_eventfd() helper; remove internal call to sys_eventfd()</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T18:15:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
</author>
<published>2018-03-11T10:34:37Z</published>
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Using this helper removes an in-kernel call to the sys_eventfd() syscall.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: do bulk POLL* -&gt; EPOLL* replacement</title>
<updated>2018-02-11T22:34:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2018-02-11T22:34:03Z</published>
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T17:25:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T17:25:20Z</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...
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<entry>
<title>eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()</title>
<updated>2018-01-06T18:47:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
</author>
<published>2018-01-06T17:45:44Z</published>
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eventfd_ctx_get() is not used outside of eventfd.c, so unexport it and
fold it into eventfd_ctx_fileget().

(eventfd_ctx_get() was apparently added years ago for KVM irqfd's, but
was never used.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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